<TITLE>22. Par 73-77</TITLE>L-73 He told the woman at the well, after talking to her, where her sins was and what she'd done, and--and so forth. He went in to the pool of Bethesda, where great multitudes of lame, halt, blind, withered was laying there (Saint John 5). And as He--He... A couple days before that a woman touched His garment and went and stood off out in the audience. Jesus looked around over the audience, He said--she--He said, "Somebody touched Me."
"Why," they said, "everybody's touching You."
He said, "Yes, but I got weak; virtue went from Me; I got weak." He said, "Well," looked around over the audience. He said--seen the little woman; He picked her out, where she's at. He said, "Thy faith has healed that blood issue now; your faith done it."

L-74 Now, your faith pulls from the gift of God, just like He was the great Gift of God. And this gift here is just a small amateur gift, but it's of God just the same. So your faith operates it, not mine; yours is the one who does it. It wasn't Jesus' faith that healed that woman; He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." Thy faith did it. Her--her faith operated the gift of God that was in Him.
Now, when He went through that pool, look at all... We believe He was loving, don't you believe so? full of compassion? But when He went through that... See, people don't know what compassion means. Many times they don't know what love means.

L-75 There two different kinds of love spoke of in the Bible, you know that? In the Greek word, you that's scholars here, one of them is called phileo, and the other one's called agapao. Phileo is earthly love, we have one for another. Now, that would... You love your wife, but the love that you have for her would... If another man insulted her, you'd kill the man for it (See?), because that's phileo love.
But agapao is Divine love. That's same love would make you pray for that man's soul that insulted your wife. It's altogether different. The same thing is compassion; wished we had a little time longer, a few days to talk to you and--and speak to you on those things.

L-76 And then He went through there, full of compassion, and He passed by those lame, halt, withered, moved right on through, till He found the man laying on a pallet, little quilt on the floor, little bed. And he had prostate trouble, or something, as we'd call it. He had it thirty-eight years; wasn't going to kill him. He could walk like other men. But He said, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
He said, "Oh, somebody can beat me, can outrun me, get into the pool." 'Cause many thousands waited for that Angel to come down and move that water. And the first one got healed, the virtue of the Angel went off, just took it all off the water. And so, he said, "No man to put me in the water; when I'm coming somebody steps ahead of me."
He said, "Take up thy bed and go into the house."

L-77 Now watch. Jesus knew that he was laying there, and He knew that he had been in this condition. Is that what the Bible said? Jesus knew. Then the Jews questioned Him. Saint John 5:19, I am now. Listen what Jesus said. Now, wonder the Jews probably said; like they would tonight, "Go and heal that one, and I will believe it." That's the same thing Satan said, "Turn this stone in--into bread. Come down off the cross, and we will believe You." "Perform a miracle before me, and let me see it." God never did or never will do that. No, sir; He doesn't do it that way.
And--and so these--these Jews said, "Well, wonder why He didn't heal the rest of them, and so forth? There's thousands; I know old Brother Jones down there, John Doe, and all them, they're good members of our church, and there they are been crippled all these years; if He's a healer let Him go and heal them." The same thing's said today. See?


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